====== Neuromechanics Journal Club Spring 2009 ======


Full CNE schedule for Spring 2009 is posted http://www.esm.psu.edu/wiki/research:cne:cnethisweek09spring


===== Schedule By Date =====
  * Jan 15 \\ Organizational meeting - please bring topics and papers to discuss 
  * Jan 22 \\ Jason Mandel presents. \\{{:research:cne:viscoelastic_glia_neurons_06.pdf|Yun-Bi Lu et al., "Viscoelastic properties of individual glial cells and neurons in the CNS," PNAS, Vol. 103, No. 47, November 2006.}}
  * Jan 29 \\ [[http://www.springerlink.com/content/nj0827qjp3h1q7q3/|Kristian Franze, Andreas Reichenbach and Josef Kas, Mechanosensitivity of the Nervous System, Springer, Netherlands, 2009, Chapter 10, "Biomechanics of the CNS", pp 173-213. ]]
  * Feb 5 \\ [[http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JBENDY000125000006000798000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes|Allison C. Bain, David I. Shreiber and David F. Meaney, "Modeling of Microstuctural Kinematics During Simple Elongation of Central Nervous System Tissue," ASME, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol 25, Issue 6, December 2003, p 798.]]
  * Feb 12 \\ [[http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JBENDY000125000002000288000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes|Kenneth L. Monson, Werner Goldsmith, Nicholas M. Barbaro and Geoffrey T. Manley, "Axial Mechanical Properties of Fresh Human Cerebral Blood Vessels," ASME, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 125, Issue 2, April 2003, p 288.]] 
  * Feb 19 \\ 
  * Feb 26 \\ 
  * Mar 5 \\ 
  * Mar 12 ** Spring Break - No meeting ** \\ 
  * Mar 19 \\ 
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  * Apr 30 \\ 

===== Suggested Papers =====
Kasza Rowat Liu Angelini Brangwynne Koenderink  Weitz The cell as a material [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17174543 | Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2007 ]] 

Janmey Weitz Dealing with mechanics: mechanisms of force transduction in cells [[http://dx.doi.org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1016/j.tibs.2004.05.003 | Trends Biochem Sci 2004]]